lydia: you know, i have my eye on the octopus. anthony: okay. then i m going to straight into the lydia: straight? you re going to go straight? you re finally going straight, oh my god! i m impressed. can you verify exactly what straight means in anthony: [ bleep ] if i know. lydia: no way, honey. even when you re straight, you re not straight. anthony: did you expect to make a living from art? lydia: no, of course not. anthony: i mean, at no point? lydia: no, i just was happy i didn t have to suck [ bleep ] in an iranian shoe store. first of all i thought i would come to new york to do spoken word, but spoken word didn t really exist. so i started teenage jesus and the jerks. i had to really make the most hideous, yet precise din i possibly could as a tantrum against all of the music and all of society.
anthony: did you expect to make a living from art? lydia: no, of course not. anthony: i mean, at no point? lydia: no, i just was happy i didn t have to suck [ bleep ] in an iranian shoe store. first of all i thought i would come to new york to do spoken word, but spoken word didn t really exist. so i started teenage jesus and the jerks. i had to really make the most hideous, yet precise din i possibly could as a tantrum against all of the music and all of society. anthony: there were a lot of freakish, never could ve happened at any other times, it seems to me, bands who had a readymade audience. okay, and you did the same. you can basically say, i am a rock star. lydia: well hey, hey, hey. no, no, no. first of all i never said i was a [ bleep ] star. anthony: no, but i mean but